 growfest 4th among followers of st cuthbert is the day of a great cleansing festival the largest annual one among those of his faith though the greatest celebration of this day occurs in greyhawk it is honored anywhere where a large number of his faithful can be found the day begins for his faithful at dawn when local worshipers and pilgrims assemble at a city city's gate or closest equivalent they proceed to enter chanting and singing while the children of the faithful strike them with green switches this is known as the cleansing and while catcalls from unbelievers are stoically tolerated rotten fruit or the like are not; those attempting such acts are in for one of the more svaage beatings they have likely experienced the line of marches proceeds down the streets heading for the city city's largest temple to st cuthbert a service is held and any artifacts possessed by the temple are brought out and presented as part of the sermon following the service which usually ends at noon a huge feast is held from noon to dusk with a huge bonfire lit and kept burning until midnight it is said that such a fire is embued with the power of st cuthbert to remove curses from penitent followers of his church category holidays 